History as a discipline has long traditions going back to the ancient time. Its writing has changed from chronicles and data collection into a multiple and continuously mutating field of studying human experiences throughout diverse times and places. Because of their important role in explaining the contemporary world, historical studies are widely debated among academics and laymen. Even if the discipline appears to address only humans, the natural world often plays an important role in its studies. History not only refers to the past but also to the academic discipline and various other ways of capturing and presenting the past.
What presently is called modern history writing was established during the 1800s. This raises a question about the timing of the publication of the first scholarly studies on the history of tourism or travel. By the late nineteenth century, a number of minor studies had already been published about pilgrimages as well as about travel literature in the West....
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Kostiainen, A. (2014). History, tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_265-1
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